Waiting Area D

This s the sixth week

Two weeks and one day to go

Of side effects, nothing to speak,

Hormone therapy masks much of the show.

How many others have sat here,

Waiting patiently in Waiting Area D?

Waiting for the treatment to end, for the all clear,

Hoping that the hot beam holds the key.

So Linac first, then the Clinic Review.

A different area to wait and sit,

Then hear the consultant ask: "How are you?

You're looking well. Are you fit?"

I smile and say "I'm doing fine"

He looks at me so benign

"Any trouble with you're urine?

"No" I say "I'm keeping off the wine"

Soon over and back to the car.

Back to the roads and the traffic queue,

Back to the radio and mindless jabber

And back to work, where trouble brews.

 

Done